Paper doll



Patented Nov. 20, 1923.

PATT OFFICE.

JOI-IN F. JOHNSTON, F BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA.

:PAPER DOLL.

Application filed August 17, 1921. Serial No. 492,969.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN F. JOHNSTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Berkeley, in the county of Alameda and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper Dolls, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is a paper doll comprising improved means for detachably holding different dresses on the doll figure.

Referring to the annexed drawing in which my invention is illustrated and which forms a part of this specification:

Figure 1 is a front view of the doll figure.

Figure 2 is a front view of the doll with a dress clamped on the doll figure.

Figure 3 is a rear view of the ydoll figure.

Figure 4 is an edge view of the doll with a dress clamped on the doll figure.

In the drawing 1 indicates the doll figure made of stiff sheet paper material such as card board, and 2 indicates a paper dress. To the center of the back of the doll figure the lowen ends of a pair of spring clamps 3 and 4 are riveted by a rivet 5. The upper ends of said clamps are bent forwardly over the respective shoulders ofthe doll figure and then downwardly a short distance in front of the shoulders. The upper ends of the clamps spring backwardly so that the downwardly bent forward ends of said clamps clamp the upper edge of the dress 2 against the front of the shoulders of the doll figure and detachably hold said dress on the figure.

Having described my invention, I claim:

1. In a paper doll, adoll figure, a pair of spring clamps permanently secured to the back of said figure and extending forwardly over the respective shoulders of said figure and downwardly a short distance in front of said shoulders. l

2. In a paper doll, a doll figure, a pair of spring clamps secured to the back only of said figure and extending forwardly over the respective shoulders of said figure and 'downwardly a short distance in front of said shoulders, and a dress, the upper edge of which is gripped by the forward depending ends of said clamps against the shoulders of said figure.`

3. A doll figure, a rivet on the back of thedoll, a pair of spring clamps attached to the rivet, the upper ends of said clamps being bent forwardly and downwardly over they shoulders of the doll figure so as to hold a garment on the figure. Y

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

JOHN F. JOHNSTON. 

